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With Tesla Musk also made a number of decisions that almost killed the company. The difference is, the mistakes he made were primarily manufacturing mistakes th
by gizmo 4y ago
With Tesla Musk also made a number of decisions that almost killed the company. The difference is, the mistakes he made were primarily manufacturing mistakes that could be reversed (it was just a matter of not running out of time and money).
With Twitter there is no undo. When 80% of advertisers leave because of erratic governance they're just gone. You can get new advertisers to replace the old customers, but that takes a long time. There is no going back to Twitter before Elon. There is no vertically integrated first principles engineering approach to fixing Twitter, because on a fundamental level the interest of the advertisers, users, regulators and journalists are at odds. You can't make them all happy, and as Elon has just discovered, it is very easy to upset groups that are vital to the health of the platform.
- gremlinsinc 4y agoTwitter could make a comeback.. they'd need to sellout to Google or Microsoft probably, and he'd probably get AT MOST 5 billion. These companies know how to run online communities like GitHub, and YouTube. They're also more professional and less prone to one person's cult of personality.
- Ekaros 4y agoThere are other options like Chinese, various Middle-Eastern countries, maybe Russia. I would think that those guys would love to pay couple billion for such platform and to verify there is no disagreeable material in there either in tweets or private messages.